Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.
If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Jake Sully: The aliens went back to their dying home. Only a few were chosen to stay.
